Wednesday, April 18, 2012
“Illustrate a Story”
The story that I choose is called "At my house, only one person got the mail, and that was my mother."
I found this story interesting because it is a reality that not too many families tolerate homosexuality, and when they find out that their child is homosexual, they are able to do whatever it takes to not let the world now that their child is simply gay/lesbian. I think that parents exaggerate when they try to make the child suffer because he/she is homosexual. However, what parents do not think about are the long terms consequences that the child may carry such as severe depression and low self-esteem. I personally believe that parent must love their children under any conditions because we cannot blame nature for its causes and effects. In the other hand, I almost use all the elements mentioned in the story because I felt very inspired when I listened this story. And I would like to show to the world specially parents that there is nothing wrong with being homosexual because we have to take whatever God send us.
Thursday, April 12, 2012
“MoMA PS1: The Good, the Bad, and the Misunderstood”
The MoMA PS1 is and affiliated museum of MoMA. Unlike MoMa, MoMA PS1 only shows the artwork of young artist which creations one day will be displayed in the most famous museums. MoMA PS 1 surprised me because it was a small museum comparing with the others, and also I though that only artwork from famous artist could be displayed in museums, but in this place modern young artist have the opportunity to expose their creations. In the other hand, the purpose of this field trip was to expand our first blog post: "Goog Art vs. Bad Art."
During the visit to the museum I actually like couple of artworks, but what I truly liked was the creation Henry Taylor "It's Like a Jungle." In this piece of art I appreciate that Taylor used his imagination to make a jungle out empty gallons, baseball balls, stones, and many others materials. I think it is amazing that people have the ability to create fabulous piece of art with material that at some point we found it useless or we just considered as trash. Also, this artwork reminds me when I and was camping in the mountains which looked like a jungle with my friends from the church.
Something that I did not like was the artwork of Lourraine O' Grady. This young artist enjoys using different kinds of sex activities in his art. What turns me off about it was that he was using fruits and vegetables to make sex movements which is okay because we are living the 21th century, but I personally disagree with it because we eat those fruits and vegetables. Even though many people are using this techniques, everything he did was an exaggeration.
An artwork that I did not understand was the Iguana with the croissant. I know it says that people could adopt the iguana, but I think it should be in the Zoo or in a house for homeless animals not in a museum. Besides that, I did not understand the relationship between the iguana and the croissant and i believe that iguanas do not eat bread. Also the iguana was in his cage while the croissant was thrown in the floor. So, this scene between those two elements were very confusing until the point that I did not understood.
In conclusion, this young artist have the potential to keep up with their artwork because there are many opportunities for them. All of them have the ability to create artworks that many people like, dislike or may find it confusing, but they have the enthusiasms to do it and that's what counts. To sum up, young lazy people should follow this others young artists or at least find something profitable to do instead of being wasting their time in the streets.
During the visit to the museum I actually like couple of artworks, but what I truly liked was the creation Henry Taylor "It's Like a Jungle." In this piece of art I appreciate that Taylor used his imagination to make a jungle out empty gallons, baseball balls, stones, and many others materials. I think it is amazing that people have the ability to create fabulous piece of art with material that at some point we found it useless or we just considered as trash. Also, this artwork reminds me when I and was camping in the mountains which looked like a jungle with my friends from the church.
Something that I did not like was the artwork of Lourraine O' Grady. This young artist enjoys using different kinds of sex activities in his art. What turns me off about it was that he was using fruits and vegetables to make sex movements which is okay because we are living the 21th century, but I personally disagree with it because we eat those fruits and vegetables. Even though many people are using this techniques, everything he did was an exaggeration.
An artwork that I did not understand was the Iguana with the croissant. I know it says that people could adopt the iguana, but I think it should be in the Zoo or in a house for homeless animals not in a museum. Besides that, I did not understand the relationship between the iguana and the croissant and i believe that iguanas do not eat bread. Also the iguana was in his cage while the croissant was thrown in the floor. So, this scene between those two elements were very confusing until the point that I did not understood.
In conclusion, this young artist have the potential to keep up with their artwork because there are many opportunities for them. All of them have the ability to create artworks that many people like, dislike or may find it confusing, but they have the enthusiasms to do it and that's what counts. To sum up, young lazy people should follow this others young artists or at least find something profitable to do instead of being wasting their time in the streets.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
“Art and Identity: The Museum of Modern Art”
The Museum of Modern Art better known as MoMA, is an spectacular museum where we can see, explore, and admire the creations of different artists. Our art class was taken to the museum to observe the exhibitions of "Cindy Sherman" and "The Contemporary Galleries: 1980-now." It was very fun to walk around between these exhibitions because as open mind viewers we can quickly notice what kind of art an artist uses to express their feelings, or thoughts. The main goal of the class was to describe how the artist are personally, culturally, and historically related to their pieces of art.
First, an artist is personally connected to an artwork when they incorporate something personal in the elaboration of that specific piece of art. The artist Mariko Mori has created the "star Doll" to probably demonstrate how much she likes dolls or perhaps this dolls are somehow connected to her childhood. It is obvious that there is an insightful connections between Mori and the dolls because if you think outside the box and go a bit further than the observations at the museum and do some researches about her, you will find out that she has make many different type of dolls.
Second, as we know all cultural art, believes, and tradition are related to an individual background and heritage. Tadanori Yokoo,created a beautiful piece of art by painting something about Japanese culture. In this painting she illustrate the "Japanese Culture of the Post War Year 1945-1995," so when she or another Japonese see this painting will remember what was happening in Japan during that time. Moreover, Yokoo also incorporated the tittle of the painting in it to guide the rest of the viewers that did not know about it since the drawing is too colorful.
Finally, historical events are easy to recognize because it just happened at that time, and it stays in the past. For instance, if someone wants to represent the Native Americans he just need to take some fabric and feathers and dress like an Indian, and as long as it is not offensive that person is historically representing the Native Americans. So, in this case, Stephen Armellino created the "Bullet-Resistant Mask". These masks were used by police officers to protect their faces during the 1980's due to the violence wave in that time. Indeed, these masks are a historical symbol because today police officers do not need to wear them no more.
In conclusion, artist use their artwork to represent something related with them, the community or time which could be past, present or future. What I really liked about the Contemporary Galleries was that all those artists are very realistic with their paintings and viewers like me can feel it. In the other hand, people should keep their cultural traditions up like Tadanori Yokoo because it is simply beautiful to teach children about their heritage. After our field trip to MoMA, I have a different a opinion about museums.
First, an artist is personally connected to an artwork when they incorporate something personal in the elaboration of that specific piece of art. The artist Mariko Mori has created the "star Doll" to probably demonstrate how much she likes dolls or perhaps this dolls are somehow connected to her childhood. It is obvious that there is an insightful connections between Mori and the dolls because if you think outside the box and go a bit further than the observations at the museum and do some researches about her, you will find out that she has make many different type of dolls.
Second, as we know all cultural art, believes, and tradition are related to an individual background and heritage. Tadanori Yokoo,created a beautiful piece of art by painting something about Japanese culture. In this painting she illustrate the "Japanese Culture of the Post War Year 1945-1995," so when she or another Japonese see this painting will remember what was happening in Japan during that time. Moreover, Yokoo also incorporated the tittle of the painting in it to guide the rest of the viewers that did not know about it since the drawing is too colorful.
Finally, historical events are easy to recognize because it just happened at that time, and it stays in the past. For instance, if someone wants to represent the Native Americans he just need to take some fabric and feathers and dress like an Indian, and as long as it is not offensive that person is historically representing the Native Americans. So, in this case, Stephen Armellino created the "Bullet-Resistant Mask". These masks were used by police officers to protect their faces during the 1980's due to the violence wave in that time. Indeed, these masks are a historical symbol because today police officers do not need to wear them no more.
In conclusion, artist use their artwork to represent something related with them, the community or time which could be past, present or future. What I really liked about the Contemporary Galleries was that all those artists are very realistic with their paintings and viewers like me can feel it. In the other hand, people should keep their cultural traditions up like Tadanori Yokoo because it is simply beautiful to teach children about their heritage. After our field trip to MoMA, I have a different a opinion about museums.
Artworks:
Mariko mori.
"Star Doll."
Multiple of dolls
1998.
Tadanori Yokoo.
"Japanese Culture of the Post War Year 1945-1995."
Silkcream.
1996.
Stephen Armellino.
"Bullet-Resistant Mask. "
Keviar and polyester resin.
1983.
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